Expecting Short Inferential Distances - LessWrong
Homo sapiens’s environment of evolutionary adaptedness (a.k.a. EEA or “ancestral environment”) consisted of hunter-gatherer bands of at most 200 peop…
x Expecting Short Inferential Distances — LessWrong Noticing Confusion Inferential Distance Illusion of Transparency Conversation (topic) Evolutionary Psychology Public Discourse Rationality Frontpage 428 Expecting Short Inferential Distances by Eliezer Yudkowsky 22nd Oct 2007 3 min read 106 428 Homo sapiens ’s environment of evolutionary adaptedness (a.k.a. EEA or “ancestral environment”) consisted of hunter-gatherer bands of at most 200 people , with no writing. All inherited knowledge was passed down by speech and memory. In a world like that, all background knowledge is universal knowledge
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